Feature: Juneau Takes Work Ethic to Inuit
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BY DAVID YATES
Freelance
There is nothing ordinary about Joé Juneau, who spent 12 years in the National Hockey League and then quit a big post-hockey corporate job because he felt the company was capitalizing on his fame as an athlete.
Juneau crafted an impressive hockey career, earning all-star honours as a university player at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., before being selected in the fourth round (81st overall) by the Boston Bruins at the 1988 NHL entry draft. He played for six NHL teams (Boston, Washington, Buffalo, Ottawa, Phoenix and the Canadiens), retiring after the 2003-04 season with 156 goals and 416 assists for 572 points in 828 games.
But Juneau's proudest accomplishment was earning a degree in aeronautical engineering at RPI, the oldest technology university in the United States, according to a headline over a laminated newspaper story on a wall of Juneau's office at the Kuujjuaq Forum.
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